How to find the best beard style for your face shape

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The first thing you need to do when starting to grow your beard is to choose a beard style that will fit your overall physical appearance. This can be hard at times as there are too many things to consider like:

Patchy beard

Thin beard

Beard color

Face shape

You can decide to grow over your patches or trim them down completely, with the beard surrounding them if it’s possible, but what about the fit of your newly chosen beard style?

The shape of your face will narrow the list of beard styles you can choose from more than anything else, yet there’s one basic principle to keep in mind:

Your BEARD and your JAWLINE need to collaborate!

It’s important to know the bone structure of your face, so you learn where to trim down and where to grow more when trying to shape up your beard the best way possible.

For people with square and round jaws we suggest you keep your beard growing till it covers your Adam’s apple till some extent and then trim it down from the sides and on the bottom, so you can achieve that square elongated beard shape.

But how to know what’s your face shape?

How to determine your face shape?

It’s relatively easy. You just need a measuring tape and couple of minutes of your free time. When you get these two just follow these simple instructions and measure your:

1. Forehead: Starting from the point of your eyebrow closest to your ear and going to the opposite side.2. Cheekbones: Start from the widest point of your face just bellow the outside corner of your eye.3. Jawline: Determine the middle of your face and start from the tip of your chine up to the point where your jaw bends towards the ear, then double up on that number as you have two sides of your face.4. Face length: Pretty straightforward, just measure the length of your face from the center of your hairline (or where it once was) to the tip of your chin.

Now write down these numbers and find the best beard style you can pick for your face shape bellow:

Square Face

How to determine:

All measurements are fairly similar.

The angle of the jaw is sharp rather than rounded.

Sometimes you have a unique feature like a chin dimple.

Advice: Trim the beard you grow from your sideburns and focus on covering your chin with a deep layer.

Square faced celebrity beards:

Round Face

How to determine:

Cheekbones and face length have a similar measurement.

They are larger than also similar forehead and jawline.

The angle of the jaw is soft and much less defined.

Advice: Really let your beard go on the bottom, but always keep a short layered patch on the sides.

Round faced celebrity beards:

Oblong or Rectangular Face

How to determine:

Face length is the greatest measurement.

Forehead, cheekbones, and jawline are similar in size.

Elongated look.

Advice: You’re all over the place, so you need to keep track with your beard as well. Fuller sides with a shorter bottom part will do wonders for you.

Oblong faced celebrity beards:

Oval Face

How to determine:

Face length is greater than the width of the cheekbones.

Forehead is greater than the jawline.

The angle of the jaw is rounded rather than sharp.

Advice: This is your sweet spot. If you have a perfect oval face you can go with any beard style you like.

Oval faced celebrity beards:

There are also two more uncommon face shapes that we won’t discuss in such detail, but are worth mentioning.

Diamond Face

How to determine:

Face length measures largest.

Descending order: cheekbones, forehead, and smallest is jawline.

The chin is pointed.

Diamond faced celebrity beards:

Triangular Face

How to determine:

Jawline measures greater than cheekbones.

Cheekbones measure larger than forehead.

Combination of square and oblong.

Triangular faced celebrity beards:

Hope this article answers all of your face shape questions, but don’t be afraid to go through some of the other insightful resources I have on the topic. I’m really interested how do you maintain and shape your beard so it goes well with the shape of your face, so send me some of the styles you’ve tried over the years and your two cents for the bearded community to know. You can post it as a comment or just send a mail my way.